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  <title>Leading Department of Defense veterinarian joins Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine faculty</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Dr. Gary Vroegindewey, former director of the U.S. Department of Defense Veterinary Service Activity and assistant chief in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps, has joined the faculty of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>University plans sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Jan. 3-31</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Virginia Tech has planned its annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration for Jan. 3-31. The events scheduled for the celebration are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, Hokie football team to highlight the colors at the Orange Bowl</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets continues to partner with the Virginia Tech Football Team to highlight the colors during the pre-game ceremony at every football game. Three cadets who are members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Color Guard were selected for this honor at the Orange Bowl.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Toxicology expert at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine receives prestigious research award</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Marion Ehrich, professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious Pfizer Award for Research Excellence.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Immune system changes linked to inflammatory bowel disease revealed</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have discovered some of the key molecular events in the immune system that contribute to inflammatory bowel disease.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Researchers discover how natural drug fights inflammation</title>
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  <title>Video: Virginia Tech students unleash creativity to create big plans for the Catawba Sustainability Center</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;William Morrison of Kensington, Md., a fifth-year architecture student, joins other Virginia Tech students in coming up with ingenious ideas to guide the evolution of the 377-acre Catawba Sustainability Center.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Science magazine features sustainability in the Caribbean</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The newest issue of the College of Science Magazine explores student opportunities for education and service abroad, including the college&apos;s semester on ecology and sustainability in the Dominican Republic.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Recreational Sports celebrates a decade of power with its 10th Annual Bench Press Competition</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;On Saturday, Feb. 19, Virginia Tech Recreational Sports will host its 10th Annual Bench Press Competition. The competition is open to students, faculty, staff, and the general public.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Hokie Nation Network member wins Hokie bowl game prize package</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Virginia Tech Alumni Association and Martin Travel have announced the winner of the Hokie Nation Network Orange Bowl game prize package.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Rick Sparks receives National Orientation Directors Association award</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Sparks was awarded for his work as co-chair of the ad hoc committee for leadership restructuring for the association&apos;s board of directors.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech computer science department honors alumni, celebrates 40th anniversary</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The computer science department of Virginia Tech, part of the College of Engineering, has honored Greg Lavender as its 2010 Distinguished Alumnus, and presented Nora and Dean Kirstein with its Distinguished Service Award.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech, Carilion team with physician to create digital version of ER pediatric response chart</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;A well-known paper-based medical chart used by pediatric emergency personnel across America is undergoing a 21st century &#160;boost in an collaborative effort between Virginia Tech&apos;s College of Engineering, Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic Children&apos;s Hospital and the physician who created the original method some 25 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Brian M. Kleiner named director of Myers-Lawson School of Construction</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Brian M. Kleiner, of Blacksburg, Va., has been named director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Weather advisory: Blacksburg offices to close at 3:30 p.m. today</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Due to inclement weather conditions, Virginia Tech campus offices in Blacksburg will be closed effective 3:30 p.m. this afternoon. University staff designated &quot;emergency personnel&quot; must report as instructed by their supervisor.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Genome sequences for two deadly plant pathogens make major contributions to scientific research</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;A scientific paper written by an international team of researchers led by scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and published in the journal &quot;Science&quot; in 2006 has surpassed 200 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech graduate students suggest green ideas for a small community</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;A group of skilled graduate students from Virginia Tech proposed new green business opportunities for Floyd, a community seeking a vibrant economy.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Derek Hyra studies neighborhood revitalization in our nation&apos;s capital</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The revitalization of historic African-American neighborhoods is a central research focus for Derek Hyra&lt;span style=&quot; text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; associate professor, Urban Affairs and Planning Program, Virginia Tech National Capital Region.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Tickets available for Martin Luther King Jr. keynote address by Johnnetta Cole</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Author, educator, and humanitarian Johnnetta Cole will deliver the 6th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. keynote address in Burruss Hall auditorium Jan. 17, 2011. Tickets for the event are free and will be available through Jan. 14.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech engineers show photos of how a specific fluid defies normal activity</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;An illustration showing a scientific phenomenon that defies common intuition has garnered Sunghwan (Sunny) Jung, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech, and his doctoral graduate student, Navish Wadhwa, of Blacksburg, Va., the international Milton Van Dyke Award.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Martin Luther King Jr. contest winning posters to be displayed in downtown Blacksburg</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Each year as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Virginia Tech area kindergarten through 12th grade students are invited to participate in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. poster contest.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech accepting applications for Garden Club of America national urban forestry fellowship</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The College of Natural Resources and Environment is currently accepting applications for a national urban forestry fellowship offered by the Garden Club of America.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Back to the earth in Haiti -- Virginia Tech team improves soils</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;A team works to improve soil health as Virginia Tech researchers create grains of hope in the Central Plateau.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Cooperative Extension evaluates broccoli varieties for $4.9 million study on promising East Coast industry</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;When it comes to buying local, the cornucopia of East Coast produce runneth over with apples, peaches, pumpkins, and potatoes. Broccoli isn&apos;t a major part of the bounty just yet, but Virginia Cooperative Extension agent Wythe Morris hopes to change that.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Dana Cruikshank named communications manager of College of Architecture and Urban Studies</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Dana Cruikshank was recently named communications manager for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Outstanding laboratory staff members contribute to university research mission</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Laboratory Employee Professional Development Network announces that four individuals have been awarded the 2010 Virginia Tech Staff Award for Outstanding Performance in Laboratories.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Karen A. Jones named executive director for equity and access</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Karen A. Jones, former director of corporate diversity at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield of Rochester, N.Y., was recently named executive director for equity and access in the Human Resources at Virginia Tech.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Poor stream health imperils fish</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Donald J. Orth, the Thomas H. Jones Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences in Virginia Tech&apos;s College of Natural Resources and Environment, told the audience during his keynote address at the Southeastern Fishes Council annual meeting that more than 25 percent of the 675 fish species found in southeastern waters are considered imperiled.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>IBM presents award to Virginia Tech engineering professor Raghu Pasupathy</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Raghu Pasupathy, professor of industrial and systems engineering at Virginia Tech, has received the 2010 IBM Faculty Award in recognition of his ongoing work on the methodology of simulation optimization and random vector generation. The award comes with a cash prize of $10,000.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine farrier participates in World Equestrian Games</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Travis Burns, farrier at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, recently served as an official farrier at the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Ky.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Assistant MBA director appointed</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Gina Rudd French of Roanoke, Va., has been appointed assistant MBA director at the Pamplin College of Business.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;An international team of scientists, which includes researchers from Virginia Tech, has cracked the genetic code of a plant pathogen that causes downy mildew disease. The results are published in this week&apos;s edition of the journal Science.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;We disagree with the U.S. Department of Education ruling that university actions on the morning of April 16, 2007, are in violation of the federal law, The Clery Act, which requires a &#8220;timely warning&#8221; to a campus community upon knowledge of certain crimes committed on the campus.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Virginia Tech announces agreement with Benchmark Hospitality International to operate The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Virginia Tech&#160;has signed&#160;a contract with Houston-based Benchmark Hospitality International for management of the&#160;Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center beginning Jan. 1.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Cynthia Rutherford, former human resources wellness coordinator at the University of Virginia, has been named director of employee wellness at Virginia Tech.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students will be honored Friday, Dec. 17 as Virginia Tech holds its 2010 Fall Commencement ceremonies in Cassell Coliseum on the Virginia Tech campus.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Virginia Tech students, staff, and faculty may now receive VT Phone Alerts messages and university (vt.edu) e-mail notifications specifically targeted to university facilities in six key regions across Virginia -- National Capital Region, Abingdon, Danville, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke -- as well as the Blacksburg campus.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Black Organizations Council will hold the 33rd annual Donning of the Kente ceremony Thursday, Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. in the Old Dominion Ballroom at Squires Student Center.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;An open house to introduce the new Virginia Tech Creative Learning Academy for Senior Scholars will be held on Dec. 16.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Undergraduate Melanie C. Kiernan receives North Carolina community impact student award</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Melanie C. Kiernan of Little Rock, Ark., a senior majoring in communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, &#160;recently received North Carolina Campus Compact&apos;s fifth Community Impact Student Award.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title>Pamplin&apos;s executive MBA program partners with SAIC</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Virginia Tech received the Gordy Klatt award for highest net income in the Nationwide Youth/College category for the 2009-10 event.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets alumnus Capt. Craig Mills, U.S. Air Force, who earned a degree in civil engineering from the College of Engineering and a minor in leadership studies from the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Rice Center for Leader Development in 2002 has been selected as the Hokie Hero for the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) Championship game.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Accelerator-based supercomputers hold eight of the top 10 spots on The Green500 List, released today.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;As the nation&apos;s top government officials target efforts to help better prepare America&#8217;s students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subject areas, a program at Virginia Tech that is the realization of these efforts is gearing up for a new semester of on-campus activities.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Faculty member Jane Vance traveled to Nepal after Tsampa Ngawang Lama, a Buddhist monk, agreed to have Vance paint his lineage portrait.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Center for Community Security and Resilience in the National Capital Region convenes conference in Switzerland, joining scientists and practitioners to discuss how science and technology can be used to enhance community resiliency.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;A beer-making seminar by Anheuser Busch&apos;s corporate brewmaster and a beer tasting will kick off a silent auction hosted by the Hospitality Management Student Association on Monday, Dec. 6.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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